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The Silver Bullet Presidential Candidate For a Fed Up America:
Bernie Sanders

The American people have had enough of our current political system. They see the wealthiest citizens in the country buying elections, the complicated functions of our government, and the trench warfare going on between Democrats and Republicans, and have decided there’s no hope. Why vote when your vote won’t make a difference? This state of mind is proven by the fact that only 36.4 % of eligible voters cast ballets in the 2014 midterm elections, according to “The Washington Post.”

They don’t believe that they have a say in how our country is run any more, but this is America for crying out loud! We can’t just lie down and accept the corruption and directionless debate that is wrecking the political system, but how do we fight it? The issue of big money in politics and the standoff between Republicans and Democrats are sizable issues, but we have a solution to both. His name is Bernie Sanders and he is considering running for president.

I’d heard glowing reviews of Senator Sanders, the Independent representative from Vermont, time and time again. I was given my first opportunity to hear him speak when I scored an invite to a talk he was giving in the living room of former N.H. gubernatorial candidate Arnie Arneson, the warm-hearted and enthusiastic host of the radio show, “The Attitude” on WHNH 94.7FM.

I had high expectations, but was determined to be critical. I’m an amateur with limited political experience; I need to do serious research before I make judgments. It took about 10 minutes to realize, however, that Sanders has more sincerity in his pinkie toe than the other possible presidential candidates do combined. From the minute he took the microphone, it was obvious that he was in his element: a man of the people talking to the people about how to make the world a better place. He had no script or teleprompter; it felt more like a conversation than a monologue, and the issues he discussed were the ones most universal to the American people.

Number one on his roster was Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision that allows corporations to give unlimited amounts of money in support of politicians, and the desperate need for campaign finance reform. The Senator told it straight, “What goes on in Washington now is that people are scared to death to stand up to powerful special interests because unlimited amounts of money will be spent against them.”

He gave a synopsis of our Democracy’s situation, the vast power of wealthy corporations and the almost nonexistent power of the average citizen, and how concerned he is that the rights of the individual voter are at risk of disappearing entirely.

“You want to run for Governor?” he asked, impersonating a wealthy special interest representative. “Here’s a check for a hundred million dollars, and here’s your script. You work for me.”

This is what the country is coming to. As a part of the NH Rebellion, an organization fighting to get large private money out of politics, I was obliged to ask what specific reforms he intended to put forth to repair the rights of the voters, but Sanders beat me to it.

“The top of my agenda is to restore Democracy to this country, [and] prevent us from becoming an Oligarchy where billionaires can buy elections. We’ve got to overturn Citizens United.”

The Senator’s next topic was the economy and the state of the middle class. He shared the disturbing fact that America has forty million inhabitants living in poverty, and the “highest rate of childhood poverty in the industrialized world.” To put a stop to this, Sanders wants to repair the country’s many inadequate roads, bridges, water, rail, and waste water systems. He also made his feelings about minimum wage clear.

“If we want to create a middle class that is strong, we can no longer accept a federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.”

Needless to say, this comment was met with enthusiastic applause. Sanders said his eventual goal was a federal minimum wage of $15, but considerable change would need to take place in the economy before this happens. He also insisted that all workers who work overtime should be guaranteed time-and-a-half payment, and that women and men absolutely need to be given equal pay for equal work.

Climate change was another major issue that Sanders discussed passionately. He stated that, “Climate change is real. Climate change is caused by human activity…Climate change is already causing devastating problems.”

The Senator clearly understood the massive threat that Climate change poses, and intends to do everything in his power to put a stop to it. Just two weeks before this talk, he had introduced a measure to the Senate that, if passed, would require the Senate to recognize the reality and threat of Climate change, as well as the fact that it is caused by humans and that changes in how humans create energy need to be made in order to prevent it.

Sanders went on to talk about education, health care, foreign trade agreements and job exportation, and to answer in depth each question the audience members asked. The overlying theme on every issue, however, was an obvious desire to make America a better place for all its citizens, both Republican and Democrat. His goals are based on the interests of no one but the people he serves. More important than his promises is his record. Even the smallest amount of research will yield abundant evidence that Senator Sanders has spent his life fighting for the people.

In 2013 Sanders brought an amendment to the Senate that would overturn Citizens United, a ruling that supports a system that Sanders could benefit off of if he chose to, but instead has decided to fight because he sees the injustice it has caused. Sadly, it did not pass. Time and again he has pushed for higher minimum wage, for environmental reform, for less income inequality, and to keep jobs from traveling overseas.

There were literally people in tears at the meeting, because Sanders was finally saying what so many people have been dying to hear for so long. He is on our side, and he wants to make things better for us, but as he is not taking massive handouts from private interests he will need serious support in order to beat the candidates who are. If you are one of the 99% of people whose vote is rapidly loosing power, or if you’re just someone who wants to see higher education and health care made affordable for everyone, the middle class and economy strengthened, and a country that is more sustainable, I’d suggest you look up Sen. Bernie Sanders. You could, of course, just take my word for it, but I’d rather you came to the conclusion on your own. This is a Democracy, after all.

I can officially check “testify to have a bill passed in the N.H. Congress” off of my to do list. With any luck, it will have done some good as well.

My classmates from The Penn Program and our teacher were in Concord last week to support a bill that would create public forums around New Hampshire to discuss whether or not the people support Citizens United, the Supreme Court ruling that allows corporations and individuals to give unlimited amounts of money to campaigns anonymously. If the public showed significant disapproval of the ruling, then New Hampshire would take the issue to the national Senate to be debated, and New Hampshire would officially join the ranks of the 16 states that have called for an end to Citizens United.

It had come to our attention, and the attention of the dozens of others who came to show their support of the bill, that Citizens United encourages a system of corruption and bribery that has made money more important than voters in the eyes of our elected officials. Therefore the people with the most money in our country have significantly more representation than normal, working class people. According to Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig, 96 percent of Americans think this is wrong – my classmates and our fellow testifiers among them.

We were reunited with many of our friends from the NH Rebellion, the lively group we joined forces with last month to walk across New Hampshire protesting money-based corruption in politics. We were also greeted by a lot of new faces. The problem of money in politics is so universal that people all across the board, and from all over the state, wanted to be there to testify. It was a diverse group with one goal – to fight for the right to representation regardless of the size of our wallets.

It was the first time I’d been in a court room, forget testifying in front of our state representatives. I’ve never even been sent to the principal’s office. Walking into the room where we’d address the House Representatives was nerve racking. The tiny room was so packed with supporters and spectators that the Chairman had to bang his gavel and tell people not to stand behind the Representatives. People were spilling out into the hallway. Despite the cozy quarters, the formality of the proceedings and the imposing, though not unfriendly, auras of the Representatives was intimidating.

Thankfully, I was not among the first speakers, so I had a little time to familiarize myself with the protocol before testifying. This didn’t keep my heart from leaping into my throat when my name was called though. The Chairman was empathetic and gently told me that I could sit and begin when I was ready. I knew the moment the first comments had been spoken that the speech I had written for the NH Rebellion rally, which was the piece I had been asked to read as testimony, was not entirely right for the point of the hearing. The speech was more about boosting people’s hope in the cause of campaign finance reform, not convincing the House that it was a worthy cause, so I had to improvise a little as I went along, deciding in the moment if a phrase was appropriate to the occasion or not. In the end, it came out pretty well and the Chairman, God bless him, complimented me on my comments.

The rest of The Penn, my school group, testified as well, and I couldn’t have been prouder, especially when they were faced with questions, something I was luckily spared. Improv has never been my strong suit. It was clear that we each understood the issue and why it had to be dealt with, and that we weren’t just parroting words we’d been taught by adults.

The testimonies in general were incredible. One standout was from a fifth grade teacher, who explained how she had taught her students about voting. She said how excited they were about the prospect of having a say in how their country was run, and how confused they were when they learned that many people do not vote. They found that most Americans did not think their vote would make a difference. She asked the our state’s representatives to, “restore hope to those fifth graders,” so that they could have the power over their lives that Democracy promises them. It was powerful, and had I not been convinced of the issue already, her words would have swayed me.

Another thought-provoking speaker was a man from New York who was so passionate about getting big money out of politics that he had driven all the way from his home there to testify. He claimed that it all came down to the question, “If I had come in here, opened a suitcase full of money, and said, ‘Here you go, $10,000 for each of you if you do what I say.’ Would that be right?” This is what is happening in our government, and it is negatively affecting how the policies in our country are made. He was convincing, but the real kicker didn’t come until the end, when one of the Representatives raised his hand and asked the last question I was expecting.

“Are you a lobbyist?” and the even more shocking reply,
“Yes, I am.”

He was a lobbyist, one of the few people who could profit off the system of bribery in the government, and here he was fighting it anyway. It almost seems like an oxymoron to see a lobbyist pushing for campaign finance reform, but it was a good reminder that lobbyists, unlike corporations, are people too. He had a conscience, and apparently wanted to bring integrity back to his chosen profession.

After lunch we moved into a much fancier courtroom with chairs for everyone and a stand for the Senators. My classmates and I repeated our testimony, then settled in to hear the rest of the comments. This is when I heard another moving testimony that I will never forget.

It was from a local farmer and advocate for local, healthy food. She talked about how absurd it is that the food grown at the end of the street is almost always more expensive than food shipped from 500 miles away. She spoke about how this is affecting the health of our children and our society, and how it is killing small-scale, local farms. Her voice shook slightly, making it obvious just how passionate she was about the issue. And it all comes back, she concluded, to big corporations and this corruption. The big food companies are making life impossible for local farms and degrading our public health, yet they have a big say in how policies are formed. Nothing, she entreated, would change for the small farms until the money and influence of big corporations was removed from politics.

She was a small person in a knit sweater and glasses, not a threatening spectacle, but it was clear that she had come to fight. We had all come to fight. We saw that the power and freedom owed to us, the very framework on which America stands, was being stolen, and we felt it was our duty to let our representatives know this. I’ll be sure to let you know when the verdict comes, but until then, oh fine stubborn activists, may you have justice!

Last week I had the good fortune to join the New Hampshire Rebellion walk, a movement to end the corrupting influence of money in politics. Several walks occurred across the state, including a 10-day walk all the way from Dixville Notch to Concord, but I took part in the four-day trek from my hometown of Portsmouth to Concord. As if there weren’t already enough incredibly smart people on the Rebellion walk to start a chapter of MENSA, I had the privilege of interviewing Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and editor Hedrick Smith during a stop at the Epsom public library. Smith is the author of the national bestseller “Who Stole the American Dream?” and is a passionate advocate for campaign finance reform.

Asked to describe the premise of his latest book in his own words, Smith said “Who Stole the American Dream” details how America went from a government based on “people power,” during the mid twentieth century, to our present position where the richest one percent have the most control.

“People say it’s always been like this,” said Smith of our corrupt political system, “but it hasn’t.” The government, though certainly not free of corruption, operated well.

“There were lots of movements,” he added. The Civil Rights Movement, a labor movement, a women’s movement, an environmental movement. The people made things happen.

Smith described what went astray with a well-placed analogy.

“We sort of thought we could put Democracy on autopilot. Well either there’s no pilot, or a pilot whose taking us to places we don’t want to go.”

Basically, he explained, we allowed our system to be taken over by those who don’t necessarily have our best interests at heart. We have let our government become one where money has more power than voters and where your financial status affects your right to representation.

The complicated pattern of events that led us to this position is the topic of Smith’s book.

As a young but skeptical journalist, I was obliged to ask Smith how he did his research.

“I read hundreds of books,” he said. “I read newspaper articles and talked to experts. I talked to people at the top, but also to normal people: truck drivers, computer technicians, nurses, 7-Eleven owners,” and of course, policy makers.

Smith discussed his work for PBS where he made documentaries, many of which related to the country’s financial situation. “The Wall Street Fix,” “Can You Afford To Retire?” and “Tax Me If You Can,” were some of the films he helped create. The people he met while making these were also a valuable resource.

Perhaps Smith’s greatest research opportunity was his own experience. He saw first-hand the financial standing of individual middle class citizens weaken as they were bogged down by payments and foreclosures. Average middle class people make less money now than they did in the nineties, he informed me.

Smith ran the Washington Bureau of the “New York Times,” where he had a front row seat to the goings on in the Capital.

“I was surprised by how much we didn’t know,” he admitted. “It was getting worse right under our noses, and we didn’t even see it.” The change between our government in the fifties, sixties, and seventies to our government now was long in the making, but most were unaware of the transition.

“It was the change from day to night, and we missed twilight,” was his wry synopsis.

He spoke fondly of mid-twentieth century America, though without nostalgia. “America used to truly be the land of opportunity… that’s not the case anymore,” he said. Finland, Germany, Japan, Singapore; these were among the countries he listed that provide more chances for people to excel than the United States. America’s reputation of freedom is growing tarnished, and in Smith’s words, “We the people have got to do something.”

This was the perfect cue for the million-dollar question: What does he think we should do about it? Smith responded with another witty analogy:

“Having a healthy economy is like having a healthy diet, we can’t eat just one food.”

Among the changes that need to be made, Smith said that disclosure of who is giving how much money to who is an important step. A transparent system would at least allow the American people to see where the money is coming from and where it is going. “If you know where the money is,” Smith said, “the money is going to tell you better than anything else.”

Other possible solutions he offered include removing corporations’ power to give money to elections, and putting some form of cap on how much individuals can donate. “People think things have gotten so bad that we have to shout,” he observed. Now that shouting just has to translate into action.

What I took from my conversation with Smith is that when the people are active the government is healthy, but when they are apathetic the government is weak. Change only comes when the people demand it, so if we want a better system, we have to make it happen ourselves. It’s time we had another movement, this one geared towards taking back our Democracy and restoring equal representation to all citizens. It’s time we were our own pilots again.

Over the past four days I’ve been walking with my school group and dozens of others from Portsmouth to Concord to protest money in politics with The NH Rebellion. This afternoon we converged with the three other groups of walkers from around the state on the steps of the New Hampshire State House. We were there to exhibit our displeasure in how our government no longer works for the people, but for the dollar. Bellow is the speech I wrote for and read at the rally. It is dedicated to the amazing men and women who have walked in support of freedom, from the loving group of activists I’ve met this week to those who walked with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Article 10. of the New Hampshire state Constitution is as follows:
“Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.”

My mother taught me the meaning of Democracy when she showed me the eagle printed on the dollar bill, the one that holds an olive branch in one hand and a bunch of arrows in the other. She asked, “See how the head is turned towards the olive branch? That symbolizes that America should always look to peace first.”

This seemed terribly romantic to me, and I began using the analogy for a variety of situations. The outcome changed depending on the situation, but the one variable that remained constant was the identity of the eagle. The eagle was always the people, millions contained inside a single body. Only the majority had the power to turn the head and make the decisions. War or peace, step forward or stand by, arrows or branch. This was Democracy, the nation’s power in the hands of the people. But we are here today because that is no longer the case.

Our government now favors money over majority, to a point where the few wealthiest citizens in our nation are being represented more than all the rest, a twisted reality that in no way resembles Democracy. It is a system that legalizes bribery and gives those with the most money the highest level of power over public policy decisions, a position that by right belongs to the citizens at large. In its current stage it is damaging. If allowed to evolve it could strip us of our liberties.

I was asked to talk today about why I think my generation should want to see Democracy repaired. Well, my classmates and I have just walked 46 and a half miles from Portsmouth to Concord to support Democracy, and I promise you it wasn’t of our health. So obviously young people have the ability to participate, but why should we?

I can’t speak for every teenager, but I do not want to enter the adult world only to find that decisions about my life and my home are being made by a tiny group of people that my peers and I did not elect. I don’t want the money in my wallet to dictate my right to representation. I don’t want to see oppression, corruption, and injustice that I have no power to end. I don’t want a world that I have no right to change. The fear is no longer that we will face too often towards the arrows, but that we will lay both the branch and the arrows at our feet and surrender the right to choose. But we have not surrendered.

Our system is such that the people will loose their power only when they allow it to be taken. Therefore, the system only breaks if we give up. My teacher and I are firm believers in this quote by Margaret Mead, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”

Notice how she doesn’t specify how old you have to be in order to change the world. That’s because the world doesn’t care if you’re fourteen or ninety. There is no criteria that need be met in order to fight for what you believe in, and the thing is, if you won’t fight for the changes you want to see, they won’t happen. History shows us that if we do fight, they can happen. We are all the blessed posterity of a people who would not stand to be silenced, no matter how high the odds against them. If we don’t start fighting now, then we may loose the voices they won us forever. I will not stand by and watch the struggle for my rights be won or lost without me simply because I’m not yet eighteen. This is our future, thus it is our fight.

The fact of the matter is that nothing will change until this changes. All our nation’s problems, from poverty to pollution, will remain unaltered until we demand the reform that would allow us to address them. The NH Rebellion is doing just that, universally reaching out to every American in hopes of creating equality between voters. Together we can rebuild a nation where a CEO’s or President’s vote counts the same as that of a normal working class citizen. Together we can build a world that matches the message the eagle on the dollar bill holds in its beak: E Pluribus Unum. Out of many, one.

In the end, it’s not a matter of how impossible the odds seem. It’s a matter of how far we will go as a people united, to conquer them.

And so it begins. Yesterday morning, January 18th, my dedicated father got up at 6:30 on a Sunday to drive me and my friend Bobby Helm to Market Square in Portsmouth, where we would begin our 46 mile walk to Concord with our six person school group and many other brave souls. Our goal: to raise awareness about the corruption caused by money in politics. My sign read, “People have Consciences, Corporations have Profit,” on one side, and “Our World, Our Vote,” on the other. I would flip it around depending on how fast the cars nearest to us were going. My friends and I walked near the front, along with Willy the wonder dog, the politically active pet of one of the walkers, who we immediately dubbed our mascot. My goal is to make him a T-shirt that says, “Bark for Democracy!”

On our first day trek of eleven miles, I talked with more intelligent people than I care to count. Everybody seemed so informed and passionate, and all were more than happy to educate a curious newbie about activism, especially in regards to the Rebellion. The first woman I talked to said she was doing the walk for her children and grandchildren.
“If they won’t do it with me, I’ll do it for them,” she stated firmly. I was touched, a grandmother fighting for the rights of her future generations, even if they wouldn’t fight for themselves. I chatted with a number of other walkers, who informed me about everything from the corruption caused by limitless terms in Congress to community civic groups to youth action organizations I could join, but my best conversation of the day was doubtlessly my talk with Mary Ellen Humphrey, a former New Hampshire state Senator and Governor candidate, and a Republican turned Independent. She told me first hand how she had watched money corrupt the system. Her fellow senators would accept money from lobbyists, and then put the bills those lobbyists supported back onto the table, and sometimes even vote them up regardless of if they agreed with them.

“We look out for us,” Humphrey told me. “Money has taken your ability to be yourself out of the picture.” Humphrey herself received several checks from lobbyists.

“I sent them back on election day.” She smiled sheepishly. “I felt icky.” She was not about to sacrifice her values for cash, but it was a vicious cycle. The vast majority of senators who won their elections were the ones who raised the most money, which meant that appeasing the lobbyists was important for re-election.

“The problem is courage,” said Humphrey. Nobody was willing to stand up to the system and risk loosing their seats. But Humphrey wasn’t pointing fingers.

“The senators were good people…and I think the lobbyists felt icky too.” Everyone was under a lot of pressure to keep the money circulating, and that’s still the case today. I asked the past senator what her solution to the problem was.
“It’s very simple,” she replied. Her answer would be to create a Lobbyist Trade Association, like the kind engineers have, that would include a code of ethics. One of the rules on the code would be,“It’s unethical to give money to Legislators during the session.” Senators would have a similar code of ethics, which would encompass that it was unethical to except money from lobbyists during the session.

“It would give people a way to say no,” Humphrey explained.

The senator impressed upon me a rarely optimistic view of the future. “If I were twenty or thirty right now,” she told me, “I’d be pretty excited.” Humphrey is a business expert, and says that in her forty years of experience she’s never seen so many businesses, local and larger, with as much concern with their employees, environments, and communities as she does now. Her belief in the inherent goodness of people gave a pleasant respite from the doctor doom images most people give us of the next fifty years. She embodied what I love about the NH Rebellion: bipartisanship, equality, optimism in the face of hardship, and not blaming any individual or group of individuals for our problems.

Reasons why you should trust the political writing of a sophomore in high school: I do my research, I don’t tolerate bias, I don’t tolerate the trashing of any group or individual, and I’m not interested in promoting organizations with their own agendas. Growing up in a family that tends to lean wildly right or left when it comes to politics, I recognize the importance of keeping it neutral. The NH Rebellion caught my eye because it is working for the benefit of all people, regardless of party or views. It is fighting against a breech of our rights, and when it comes to messing with Democracy, it’s easy to get America’s attention. Bellow is my synopsis of the Rebellion and the corruption it is trying to put a stop to. My sources are at the end if you care to learn more or locate where I got my information. May my humble research improve your store of civic knowledge.

The American political system has come to a point where it favors money over majority. The politicians who raise the most money are increasingly becoming the ones who win their elections, and they are not getting this money from average American citizens. Politicians are being offered huge amounts of cash from private interest donors, such as corporations and wealthy individuals, rendering the donations that an average citizen could make practically useless.

Corruption linked to private money has been going on in our government for decades, but in recent years matters have grown worse as regulations surrounding the money wealthy donors can give to politicians grow more lenient. Rulings such as Citizen’s United, which was passed in the January of 2010, have made it so corporations and unions can give unlimited funds in support of politicians.

In his book “Republic Lost,” Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig reported that members of Congress spend anywhere from 30 to 70 percent of their time fundraising from private donors. In an NPR interview Professor Lessig stated that 60% of all money given by Political Action Committees in the 2012 presidential election was donated by 132 wealthy citizens, less than one percent of the population. The result? Politicians only have to meet the needs of a small percentage of donors, not their voters, to gain power.

So America, I have bad news. You are no longer a Democracy. A Princeton University study confirmed that our political system so favors the rich and powerful, the American government can no longer be defined as democratic. We are now an Oligarchy controlled by a small group of unelected wealthy citizens.

So we have a problem, but more importantly, we have a solution!

The New Hampshire Rebellion is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, non-just-about-anything-controversial group of American citizens from all walks of life dedicated to ending private-money-based corruption in our government. Founded in 2013 by Lessig, the Rebellion is a limb of Open Democracy, an organization that was started by Doris Haddock, also known as “Granny D.” In 1999 at the age of 88, Granny D walked the length of the United States, from California to Washington D.C, to protest the system of legal corruption in America.

Inspired by her journey, the Rebellion organized its first walk across New Hampshire, from Dixville Notch in the north to Nashua in the south, in January of 2014. A second walk was organized in July, this time across the N.H. Seacoast. This January four more walks will take place simultaneously from different towns across the state: Keene, Dixville Notch, Nashua, and Portsmouth. All of them will end in Concord on the 21st in a mass protest against legal corruption.

I talked with Ellen Reed, one of the walk organizers, about the over arching goal of the Rebellion and why it was based in New Hampshire. She said, “96% of the American public feel it is important to reduce the influence of money in our political system, but 91% believe it cannot be done. The goal of the NH Rebellion is to make that 91% aware of the possibility of restoring integrity to our democratic republic, and to make the influence of money in our elections the number one voting issue in New Hampshire, taking advantage of New Hampshire’s ‘First in the Nation’ presidential primary, which sets the tone for the whole country.”

Reed also shared with me Article 10 of the New Hampshire State Constitution, which reads:

“Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government.”

Modern translation: If a tiny group of unelected cronies are running the government, it’s time to rebel.

The NH Rebellion is neither for nor against any specific bill, group, or individual. This is not the American people vs. more American people. This is Oligarchy vs. Democracy. It is a movement for the equal rights and representation of all people using the power of the people. We have no hope of creating a better nation or a better world until we are being fairly represented, but that day will never come unless we the people demand reform.

Join on the side of Democracy, and if in 2016 you are given the opportunity to speak to a Presidential candidate, ask them this:

“What specific reforms will you advance to end the corrupting influence of money in politics?”

Want to join the Rebellion? Just want to learn more? Go to: http://www.nhrebellion.org/ or to any of the other wonderfully reliable sources bellow